Service provision changes
A service provision change is a situation on a TUPE transfer in which activities cease to be carried out by a contractor on a client's behalf and are carried out instead by a subsequent contractor on the client's behalf.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 introduced into UK statute for the first time a definition of a service provision change for transfer of undertakings purposes.
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